1. “Carpentaria” is an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel, set in and around the town of Desperance on the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia’s far north. The inhabitants—the ...

Now in its 29th year, The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists award champions the most exciting emerging voices in Australian fiction, shining a spotlight on writers aged 35 and ...

Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US ... members of the Australian literary community to nominate their best Australian books of the 21st century, creating a ranked top 30.

Two of our finest romance novelists ... Nathan Edwards Murray Middleton is among the best contemporary practitioners of the short story in Australia. His first collection won the Vogel a few ...

Communism, Kent remarks, “influenced the work of some of Australia’s best women writers, whether they followed the Party or not”. This left them in vulnerable positions when war broke out in ...